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BREBGH' LUADING FIRE ARM. No. 261,663. Patented' Ju1y25, 1.88.2

@siren Srarns PATENT Genion.

ALEXANDER T. BROWN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO HOWARD H. LINCOLN, OF SAME PLAGE.

BRECH-LOADING FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Baten@ No. 261,663, dated July 25, lesa.

Application filed April 17, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER T. BROWN, ofthe city of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new andusefulImprovementsin Breech- Loading Guns; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertainsto make I l to provide means of supporting bothsides of an extractor' arranged to extract two or more shells at once to advance equally.v I attain these objects by means of two or more extractors peculiarly shaped, and operated as hereinafter more fully described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view ofa combined double-barreled shotgun and rifle, showing my cartridge-extractors pushed out. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same at the rear end of the barrels. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my cartridge-extractors and a portion of the guustock, part in section. Fig. 4 is a pian of the swinging breech -piece with the barrels removed to show my extractors.

A A are the two barrels ot' a shotgun, and B is a rifle-barrel.

O is the forward portion ofthe gun-stock, usually made of wood, lirmly secured to the barrels and titted at its rear to the stationary portion D of the iron hinge, which is also lirmly secured to the barrels.

E is the breech-block, hinged-at its forward end to the fixed piece D to swing downward enough to allow the operation of loading the gun and withdrawing the cartridges above it.

(No model.)

To this breech-block the gun-stock or breech is secured in the usual manner.

F is an extractor forwithdrawing the cartridges from both barrels ofthe shotgun at once. It consists of a head, F, recessed into the rear end of all the barrels flush with said rear end, and cut at its edges to form a true continuation ot' each bore, a sliding bar, G, a guide-piu, J, Fig. 3, and a stop-screw, I. The piu Jand barG are parallel, and serveas guides for the head F, sliding parallel with the bore. The pin J enters a drilled hole in the solid stock of the barrels, and the bar G slides in a groove in the outside ofthe barrels.

His a similar bar, having its rear end or head fitted to the ritje-barrel B in the peculiar form show n at Fig. 2, serving as a cartridgeextractor for the riiie.

It is a well-known fact that all cartridges have a small amount of spring, and it' the chamber in which they are tired isjust enough larger than the cartridge to allow this spring and no more the cartridge will be easily withdrawn alter tiring; but it .he chamber is too large all around or at any point the cartridge, expanded by ring,will take a set at the loose point and stick very tightly in the chamber. This makes it necessary to provide the extractor-heads with a rigid external support, for internally they receive the pressure of the cartridge.

On inspecting each of my extractors relative to the direction ot'straius and support, it will be seen that they are fully backed by solid stock. The lower face of cach extractor-bar is also supported by resting on the breech-piece E when closed. It is also a fact tha-t if the extractorforms more than a halfcircle around the cartridge the cartridge will stick in it after firing. To obviate this and yet keep the bore of the ride so close to the bores of the shotgun as to be compact, I have given the extractor-heads ,F and H an arch not to exceed a half-circle of bearing against the riliecartridge; but as I interni to make another' application for a patent on a similar cartridge extractor it is not deemed necessary to further describe the form of the extractor-head.

The particular object-.of the extractor ll is Moo :Tramway tsss to push the rifle-cartridge head far enough from the extractor F to allow said ride-car tridge to be easily taken by the fingers of the operator. To this end I have fixed two studs, K L, in the breech-piece E, Fig'. 3, so that when the breech is swung down these operate as levers to force the extractor-rods G H to slide tothe rear and push ont the cartridges, whose heads projectovcr the extractor-heads, and the bar H, being longer than the bar G, Fig. 4, is sooner operated, pushing the rifle-cartridge about one'sixteenth of an inch farther out than the shot-cartridges.

One moditication of this device consists in two extractor-bars of equal length, in combination with similar lever studs placed at different distances from the ends of the extractorbars,so that one will abut againstitsextractorbar sroner than the other.

Another modification consists in the cour' binat ion'of more than two cartridge-extractors, with more than two lever-studs timed to operate in succession, so that more than two cartridges may be ejected to ditt'erent distances from their respective chambers by the movement oi' a single hand-lever, which is in this instance the gun-stock. v

To support the. extractor-head F against the diagonal strain which withdrawing the righthand cartridge would produce, I bave supplied the rod II with a shoulderjust far enough from its rear end to abut against said extracten head F, Figs. I and 3, at the instant that the stud K abuts against the bar (l. This will carry beth sidesot' thc extractor F equally.

Itis obvious ti'at, instead ot'lmvingthe arms (il II of ditl'erent lengths, the studs K Il may be arranged one before thc other and aecomplish the. saine result.

Having fully described my invention', I wish to secure by Letters Patent the following:

l. In a xnultibarrel breech-loading fire-arm in which the barrels are hinged to the frame andthe breech is opened by tilting the barrels, a frame provided at or near the hinge-joint with one or more projecting studs, and two or more sliding extractors arranged on the barrels, as shown, so that when the barrels are tilted the extractors engage with said studs and starb the shells successively, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a three-barreled gun, the combination of lthe two eartridgeextractors operated by two lever-studs, one of said extractors being longer than the other for the purpose of pusl1- ing its cartridge farther o'ut than thc other does, substantially as specified.

3. In a three-barreled gun, the combination of two cartridge-extractors and two operatinglever studs, one of said extractors being provided with a shoulder to abut against and aid in ejecting the ol her extractonhead, substantially' as and for the purpose specified.

. 4. The combination ofthe arm G and head F, rigid with each other, with the arm H, studs K L, and hinged breech-piece E, the arm H being longer than the arm G, and the whole adapted to serve as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER T. BROWN.

\\'it1iesses H. H. LrNooLN, JAMES H. TURN-ER. 

